United States Sixth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Amedisys, Inc. v. Nat'l Century Fin. Enter.

Bankruptcy Law
The bankruptcy court correctly concluded that the automatic stay in bankruptcy applies to plaintiff's action where it is an act to obtain possession...

Gibson Guitar, Corp. v. Paul Reed Smith Guitars

Intellectual Property, Trademark
In a trademark-infringement dispute concerning guitars, summary judgment in favor of plaintiff is reversed where there is no basis on which it can...

Touvell v. Ohio Dep't of Mental Retardation

Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment dispute brought under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the district court correctly determined that the FMLA's purported...

Beecham v. Henderson County

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Defendant-County had a rational basis for terminating plaintiff's at-will employment where her romantic relationship with a man married to a woman...

Biros v. Bagley

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
The grant of plaintiff's petition for writ of habeas corpus, vacating his death sentence, is reversed where the district court improperly granted the...

In re: Lott

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
A defendant's assertion of actual innocence does not effect an implied waiver of the attorney-client privilege.

Hoevenaar v. Laxaroff

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit challenging a prison's ban on long hair, injunctive relief to plaintiff is reversed and remanded where the district court failed to give...

Osborn v. Haley

Administrative Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
When a tort suit against a federal employee is filed in state court, and the Attorney General certifies that the employee was acting within the scope...

Myers v. Potter

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 civil rights action, summary judgment for defendant-police officer on the ground of qualified immunity is reversed where a...

US v. Frazier

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Denial of defendant's motion to suppress is affirmed where the district court did not err in applying the good faith exception set out in US v. Leon,...